More Americans are opting to work well
One in three Americans who are at least 40 have or plan to have a job in retirement to prepare for a longer life, according to a survey
Financial needs aren’t the only culprit for “the unretirement” trend.
“The concept of retirement is evolving,” said Christine Russel, senior manager of retirement at TD Ameritrade. “It’s not just about finances. The value of work is also driving folks
One reason for the change in retirement patterns: Americans are living longer. The share of the population 65 and older was 16% in 2018, up 3.2% from the prior year, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. That’s also up 30.2% since 2010. Older Americans are also the fastest-growing segment of the U.S. workforce, and boomers are expected to live longer than previous generations. The percentage of retirement-age people in the labour force has doubled over the past three decades. About 20% of people 65 and older were in the workforce in February, up from an all-time low of 10% in January in 1985, according to money manager United Income.
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China’s Good Samaritan Law (见义勇为法) Takes Effect
China’s Good Samaritan Law went into effect on October 1 to encourage people who are ready to help others. Under the law, people who voluntarily offer emergency assistance to those who are, or who they believe to be, injured, ill or in danger, will not have civil responsibility in the event of harm to the victims.
The new law aims to ease the reluctance people feel toward helping strangers for fear of legal consequences if they make mistakes in treatment. It is a response to the phenomenon of people hesitating
There has been no shortage of cases
These cases
However, some experts are concerned
Tribes (部落) in Danger
The Jarawa, a tribe of 200-300 people, live on the Andaman Islands in the Indian Ocean. They look very different from their Indian neighbours. Most probably, their closest relatives are Africans. No one outside the tribe really speaks their language, so not much
But we do know
The threats to the Jarawa started in 1970. A road was built through the forest
But in the case of the Jarawa, it seems that the fight against these dangers has been successful, thanks to Survival, an organization
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, more commonly
She used to visit a temple regularly. Gandhi used to accompany her to the temple.
Both Gandhi and his mother were deeply religious although they were not scholars. Many religious visited their house and
Martin Seligman is leading the research on what might be called a happiness revolution in psychology. Since World War Two, psychologists have focused on fixing
When Seligman did a research to find academic articles about “positive psychology”, he found only 800 out 70,000. “Psychologists tend
In the last 50 years, statistics have shown that we are
Science has shown that there are several distinct roads to
In Ningbo city, a young woman has made the bamboo product brand of her family’s company famous around the world,
Wang Xiaoqing, born in the 1990s,
In 2018,a bamboo table
Serving
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On January 10, Uganda reopened schools after the longest closure in the world
When the buildings first shuttered, the Ministry ofEducation broadcast lessons on TV and radio stations, and some schools handed out printed materials. But this did not last for lack of funding. So the
Uganda’s National Planning Authority in August 2021 projected that 4.5 million of them will likely not return to school. The reasons for the dropouts are manifold. The teen pregnancy rate rose significantly. And many poor children in urban and rural areas
Plus, in an economy pinched by the pandemic, many families cannot currently afford the fees,
Children who are able to return school have been promoted one grade level, a decision made by the Ministry of Education to guarantee spots for newly
Kusemererwa Jonathan Henry, a teenager living in Kamwokya, one of the largest slums in the capital of Kampala, had just started high school and made new friends
How language transformed humanity
Language is very probably the one characteristic that separates us from the chimpanzees, our closest relatives. All other major differences between us likely stem from language. “It allows you to implant (植入) a thought from your mind directly into someone else’s mind”, says Mark Pagel, professor and head of the Evolution Laboratory at the University of Reading.
Humans use discrete (分离的) pulses of sound—their language—
Social learning is visual theft: for example, if I can learn by watching you, I can steal (and benefit from) your best ideas, wisdom or skills without having to invest the time and energy to develop these
There are two options for dealing with this crisis: either return into small family groups so the benefits of each group’s knowledge
“Language evolved to solve the crisis of visual theft and to exploit cooperation and exchange”, says Professor Pagel.
In fact, as Professor Pagel argues, language is a “social technology”
But almost incomprehensibly, thousands of languages evolved. So just
“Can humans afford to have all these different languages?” asks Professor Pagel. In a world
In fact, humanity’s “destiny is to be one world with one language”, concludes Professor Pagel.
Preparations Underway for Moon Landing
China is making preparations for a moon landing that will place its astronauts on the lunar surface, according to a senior official at the China Manned Space Agency, who said our astronauts will definitely touch down on the moon.
The news conference invited key figures from China’s manned space programs, who are also members of the Communist Party of China,
China’s space authorities have a long-term plan to land astronauts on the moon and set up at least one scientific station there. They hope to use the manned missions to carry out scientific surveys
Toward that goal, the editor-in-chief of Aerospace Knowledge magazine, said Chinese engineers need to build new, stronger carrier rockets and spacecraft
Designers at the China Academy of Launch Vehicle Technology, the country’s major maker of carrier rockets, are researching a super-heavy rocket that will be several times bigger and mightier than the Long March 5, now the biggest and strongest in China’s Long March rocket family.
Does eating when watching videos affect our diets?
A spoonful of pickles (榨菜) can sometimes make a meal taste better. These days, a new type of pickle
The topic received more than 16 million clicks on Sina Weibo and about 100,000 people participated in the discussion. Instead of
According to a research paper published in 2019, this habit
This works not only for eating meals but other demanding tasks as well. A research project